'We came down to show we are united with them'

Dozens of buses and cars were forced to queue back along Brixton Road as the protesters blocked traffic outside the Ritzy Cinema following the Dallas shooting.

One bus driver said he had been stuck for more than two hours.

Scuffles broke out at one point after protesters said a bus driver made a derogatory remark towards them. He was punched by one protester after being ushered away by six or seven police officers.

Officers then backed away from the crowd who remained in the road playing music.

People gather to hold a faith vigil at Thanks-Giving Square in Dallas (Image: Getty)

Some protesters cheered as one man shouted through a loudspeaker “we have locked down Brixton”.

Another man, Vincent Lee, 37, and his partner Jessica Osibona came to the march as a mark of solidarity of the events in the US over the past week.

Mr Lee said: “It is a mess. Predominantly it is happening in America with their gun laws but we came down to show we are united with them.”

It is hard because I’m mixed. I’ve got white family members too. The officers who got killed in Dallas, they’ve got families too.

Ms Osibona said she felt “compelled” to join the protest having followed the Black Lives Matter movement over the past year.

She said: “I was looking for some kind of inspiration as to what we can do collectively.”

She added it was her first such protest and had given her an “overwhelming feeling of unity”.

20:33

More from Obama

Here’s more from President Barack Obama, who has been speaking at a news conference during a trip to Poland

First of all, as painful as this week has been, I firmly believe that America is not as divided as some have suggested. Americans of all races and all backgrounds are rightly outraged by the inexcusable attacks on police, whether it’s in Dallas or any place else. That includes protesters. It includes family members who have grave concerns about police conduct, and they have said that this is unacceptable.

US President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks on the shooting in Dallas (Image: Getty Images)

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Grieving officers working around-the-clock

Grieving police officers who lost five colleagues in yesterday’s shooting have been working 20-hour days to provide cover.

Deputy Chief John Lawton said officers are working around-the-clock this weekend to collect evidence, speak to witnesses and provide extra patrols despite the trauma of the last 48 hours.

He told the Dallas Morning News: “Our officers are very passionate. They enjoy what they do. You just see their commitment.

“They stayed so late and then they came right back, and then they’re doing it again.”

Dallas officers pay their respects as the bodies of their murdered colleagues are transported

19:26

Obama says he will continue to fight for tighter gun control

President Obama has also told reporters he will continue to fight for tighter gun laws in his remaining months as president.

Obama has so far been blocked from introducing controls to limit gun access by the Republican-controlled Congress.

He said: “I am going to keep on talking about the fact that we cannot eliminate all racial tension in our country overnight.

“We are not going to be able to identify, ahead of time, and eliminate every madman or troubled individual who might want to do harm against innocent people. But we can make it harder for them to do so.”

18:58

Obama: 'US is not going back to the 1960s"

US President Barack Obama has said America is ‘not as divided as some have suggested’ during a Nato summit in Warsaw.

.Mr Obama also told a press conference “it was just not true” the US was returning “to the situation in the 60s”.

He said: “We cannot let the actions of a few, define all of us.

“The demented individual who carried out these attacks in Dallas, he’s no more representative of African-Americans than the shooter in Charlestown was representative of white Americans or the shooters in Orlando or San Bernardino were representative of Muslim Americans.

“They don’t speak for us, that’s not who we are.”

Barack Obama said America is 'not going back to the 1960s' (Image: Reuters)

18:35

Black Lives Matter demonstrators march through London

Hundreds of demonstrators have protested in London against the killing of two black men in the United States.

Brixton was brought to a standstill as a crowd chanting “black lives matter” and “hands up, don’t shoot” took to the streets on Saturday.

The crowd of approximately 300 people gathered in Windrush Square before marching to the nearby police station, and then through neighbouring streets.

It followed a protest in central London on Friday after the shooting of black men by US police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and St Paul, Minnesota. Those deaths were followed by the reprisal shooting of five officers in Dallas.

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Fallen officer's daughter “will not have her daddy to walk her down the aisle”

The grieving partner of one of five officers killed in yesterday’s shootings has said his daughter “will not have her daddy to walk her down the aisle” in a heartbreaking tribute.

Patrick Zamarripa’s partner Kristy Villasenor said the killings were “disgusting display of hate” means her daughter.

She wrote on Facebook: “I finally found the love of my life and now have to endure a lifetime without my lobster.”

Patrick Zamarripa (Image: Reuters)

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Mourners leave tributes outside Dallas police station

Mourners have paid tribute to the five police officers shot dead in Dallas yesterday.

People have been leaving balloons, flowers and cards outside Dallas Police headquarters in a touching display of respect and solidarity.

17:30

Protesters carrying rifles 'caused confusion among police'

After shooting broke out in Dallas yesterday, police initially said they believed four gunmen had attacked officers.

The figure was later scaled back to two and detectives are now saying they believe Micah Johnson was the lone gunman.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said investigators’ initial confusion about the number of shooters was partly because about 20 protesters wearing protective vests and carrying rifles scattered when the shooting started.

Conflicting early reports were also added to as it is believed Johnson fired from a number of different levels from one building.

Demonstrator Mark Hughes, who carried a rifle during the Black Lives Matter protest, was initially named as a suspect by police but released without charge after handing himself in to police.

Mark Hughes was named as a suspect and later released (Image: @Beyupdates_/twitter)

16:54

Protests across the US in night of tension

As well hostilities in Pheonix, SWAT team was called and police arrested 74 protesters in Rochester, New York, in a night of tension across America

An estimated 5,000 people marched along a highway in Atlanta, Georgia, amid a heavy police presence.

Police forces across the US were placed on high alert as officers braced for a potential fall-out over the Dallas shootings and the deaths of black men Alton Sterling and Philando Castile - who were both shot dead by police last week.

People march in solidarity along Market Street in San Francisco, California, yesterday (Image: AFP/Getty)

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Black Lives Matter protesters pepper sprayed in Pheonix

Black Lives Matter protesters were sprayed with tear gas by police in Pheonix just hours after five officers were killed during another demonstration in Dallas.

Footage from the scene showed pepper spray being fired at protesters as the protest threatened to spiral out of control.

Around three hours after the demonstration began officers declared it an ‘unlawful assembly’ and ordered people to leave.

Police said the action had been taken as objects had been thrown at officers.

Hero mum shot protecting her children

This is the heroic woman who was shot as she turned herself into a human shield to protect her children from the snipers who killed five Dallas police officers.

Mum-of-four Shetamia Taylor bravely threw herself over her two sons as bullets flew through the air as they tried to leave the anti-violence protest in Dallas.

She was hit in the leg leaving one of her sons ‘covered in her blood’.

The sister of the 37-year-old, who is thought to be a medical worker from Garland, described the terrifying moment the shooting started at the Black Lives Matters protest on Thursday night with her sons.

Theresa Williams said: “As the rally was ending and they turned to leave, they were one of the first crowds to leave, they heard the first gunshot. After that first gunshot she heard the second gunshot and after that it was just a lot of gunshots. She said they just came so fast and they wouldn’t stop.

“We can understand how the conditions of America today pushed that man to respond how he did. Every man and woman has his breaking point, and we just think Micah got to his breaking point before anyone else.”

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Thousands gather in Dallas

People gather to hold a faith vigil in Dallas

Thousands gathered in Dallas to pay tribute following the atrocity.

The faith vigil at the city’s Thanksgiving Square took place yesterday.